detrimental

In a sentence

Six example sentences with detrimental, each labelled with its topic.

• Long stretches of night shift work were detrimental to the residents' reaction times, so the hospital rewrote the rota.

  Medicine

• Road salt runoff proved detrimental to the stream, and the trout population fell every winter for a decade.

  Environment

• The rushed rebrand was detrimental to the shop, whose regulars stopped recognising the sign and drifted to a rival.

  Business

• Constant comparison proved detrimental to the students' confidence, and the school stopped posting rankings.

  Psychology

• Skipping rest days is detrimental to progress, since muscle rebuilds between sessions rather than during them.

  Fitness

• Sudden tariffs were detrimental to the region's exporters, who lost their biggest market in a single quarter.

  Economics

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More GMAT words

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• flatter
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